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Freedom Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
- In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is…
- The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
- Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
- The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution…
- I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
- Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
- I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not,…
- To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
- The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as…
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